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Check out the innovative musings of Akasaka, a graduate student @Stanford studying human computer interaction. During the presidential election, Akasaka created Twitterdots, an interactive map using geo-located tweets to show who voted for whom and where.

Inspired by his liberal arts education at Swarthmore, Awuah launched @Ashesi University in his native Ghana. A regular TED speaker and recently featured in @Forbes, Awuah's Twitter handle is a great way to keep up with his entrepreneurial works.

Back from working on President Obama's re-election campaign, follow Mayor Michael Nutter's senior advisor as she communicates his administration's work on education, job creation, and government transparency to Philadelphia's 1.5 million residents. Bonus: Bell also tweets reflective #hashtags.

An attorney who specializes in labor and employment law, Davis is a legal analyst @NewsTalk969 in Boston. Davis tweets about issues discussed on air, the latest news, and lessons learned. Earlier this month, he hosted Swarthmore's admissions dean Jim Bock '90 to discuss this question/tweet: "Was Rick Santorum right? Is Obama a snob for thinking we should send our kids to college?"

If federal tax and budget policy, political economy, public investment, stabilization policy, and macroeconomics are your thing, follow Fieldhouse, who works on fiscal policy and progressive budget reform @EconomicPolicy Institute and as a federal budget policy analyst @tcfdotorg (The Century Foundation).

Sample tweet: "Santa's definitely for redistribution, but I'm betting those North Pole elf laborers are being badly exploited: http://politi.co/TRD7Nj D or R?"

Poet and author Fried leaves no stone unturned when she tweets. From personal reflections to "Dickens. The Wire. Discuss.," Fried controls her Twitter room. Her most recent work, Women's Poetry: Poems and Advice, is due out in 2013.

Sample tweet: "Recycling day weird: three blocks away from my house I find the first page of a printed draft of a poem by me in the gutter."

As senior reporter for @marketplaceAPM, Hartman tweets his views on the news and his on-the-ground coverage – including his singing debut for a story on what makes a summer hit and his coverage of the Tahrir protests in 2011.

Founding sustainability director for Philadelphia, Hughes teaches @penndesign and is a columnist for the non-profit urban affairs blog Next American City. Follow his tweets for ruminations on city planning and current events.

Hvistendahl tweets as a China-based correspondent with @sciencemagazine and author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Unnatural Selection on the effects of sex selection on the global number of women and men. Watch her campus talk from earlier this year about her work.

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